IKEA marks the 40th anniversary of its Stockholm series with the launch of Stockholm 2025, the collection’s largest edition yet. Presented during Milan Design Week, the new release introduces 96 designs spanning furniture, lighting, textiles, and accessories. With this collection, IKEA continues its long-standing focus on natural materials, practical comfort, and thoughtful construction. Stockholm 2025 becomes available globally starting April 10.
Design Direction
Creative Leader Karin Gustavsson calls Stockholm 2025 a no-compromise collection shaped by attention to detail and long-term usability. IKEA worked with three Swedish designers Ola Wihlborg, Nike Karlsson, and Paulin Machado, who each brought a distinct perspective to material use and form. Together, they created a cohesive series built around shared principles of quality, proportion, and familiarity.
Focus on Sofas
The collection begins with two contrasting sofas that define its design range. Ola Wihlborg created a wide, modular model in four colors, including deep turquoise velvet. His concept rejects the need for constant reshaping or added cushions. After testing more than 30 prototypes, he arrived at a design that holds its shape through daily use and adapts to different room sizes through separate modules. Nike Karlsson took an alternate path. His sofa skips foam entirely, using a structure made from pine, latex, coconut fiber, and woven fabric. The frame supports comfort through construction rather than padding, and reflects Karlsson’s interest in using natural materials with high performance.
Return of Rattan
Rattan returns to the Stockholm line through Karlsson’s updated cabinet design. This sliding-door unit features a hand-woven front and draws on the popularity of his earlier 2017 rattan cabinet. The same material appears in other parts of the collection, from the backrest of a dining chair to a lounge piece built around a thick rattan structure and finished with a soft bouclé cushion.
Shapes and Structure
Chairs and tables throughout the series show attention to exposed structure and tactile materials. Hand-bent beechwood curves into rounded armrests and chair backs, while shelving units and tables stay light in profile but firm in use. The collection emphasizes clean proportions, visible construction methods, and durable finishes, applying traditional techniques in quiet, direct ways.
Textiles Drawn From Nature
Textile designer Paulin Machado looked to the forest for references, drawing color and motif ideas from Swedish seasonal changes. Her work includes wool rugs with birch-inspired patterns, printed lampshades with mushrooms and leaves, and merino blankets in layered patterns. The textiles bring a sense of outdoor color into indoor spaces, and Machado describes nature as the ideal reference, where every shade relates and contrasts without effort.
Objects For The Table
The dining range keeps the same approach to simplicity and texture. Stoneware plates and porcelain bowls share shelf space with large vases, each one shaped in glass or ceramic with small differences in surface and tone. Two chandeliers in glass add softness to the line, delivered with white gloves to emphasize their care in assembly.
Cohesive Across The Home
Stockholm 2025 maintains a consistent direction even as it crosses categories. Soft browns, washed greens, and pale pine build a base palette, while the mix of solid wood, wool, and glass keeps the collection rooted in touchable, familiar materials. Although the designs come from three individuals, the pieces carry a shared focus, offering consistency across living spaces without repeating themes.
With its ninth edition, Stockholm continues to reinforce IKEA’s design values: usefulness, clarity, and accessibility. IKEA positions Stockholm 2025 as an update for everyday life where each object fits, functions, and lasts.
